Monday, February 12, 2007

Command, Option, Control

Command, Option, Control:The race is on to see who can say the most jackassed thing regarding Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music".

It's both entertaining and irritating, but not surprising, how so many commentators let their dislike of Steve Jobs get in the way of their ability to recognize facts and rational arguments. No one has yet falsified Jobs's main point: music DRM is useless because we all can get music without DRM — and with better quality — from CDs.

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I am VP and Engineering Fellow at Google, where I lead work on natural-language understanding and machine learning. My previous positions include chair of the Computer and Information Science department of the University of Pennsylvania, head of the Machine Learning and Information Retrieval department at AT&T Labs, and research and management positions at SRI International. I received a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and I have over 120 research publications on computational linguistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and logic programming, as well as several patents. I was elected AAAI Fellow in 1991 for contributions to computational linguistics and logic programming, ACM Fellow in 2010 for contributions to machine-learning models of natural language and biological sequences, and ACL Fellow in 2017 for contributions to sequence modeling, finite-state methods, and dependency and deductive parsing. I was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1993.